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Originally Posted by MorTech
Almost all consumer plastics are just ethylene and trees are a crop. The best thing to do is incinerate them so to release the sequestered CO2 and water into the atmosphere so plants, thru photosynthesis, can produce oxygen and sugar.
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polywood is all made from recycled plastic, Trex decking started from recycled plastic bags. . So recycling has its benefits as clean ethylene is easily melted to be reused again, which reduces the overall need to use new petroleum for products. The byproduct comparison is unusable ash versus usable products. .
Yeah, recycling is much more expensive than cheaper dump and burn, and the economic policy in the US is the cheapest answer wins, is not necessarily the best long term answer.
YMMV